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Podcast: Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
Episode: Francesca Rudkin: Airline headlines and flight delays
Description: I started counting headlines about Air New Zealand two weeks ago after my flight from Nelson to Auckland was delayed by about an hour.   Then last Saturday my partners flight from Napier to Auckland was delayed after a bird strike. Neither delay was hugely consequential – just a little irritating.   But since then, there have been a number of press articles about issues with planes.   On the 30th of November, an Air NZ plane sat on the tarmac in Hong Kong for hours before being canned after a fuel fault and then crew sickness.   An A...